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ria.ru  | MOSCOW, May 17 - RIA Novosti. More than 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers and mercenaries ended up in a cauldron near Severodonetsk and Lisichansk in the Luhansk People's Republic, Vitaly Kiselyov, Assistant Minister of the Interior of the LPR, said on Channel One.

"There will be 15-16 thousand in full," he said, answering the host's question whether "a huge group of nationalists from the Armed Forces of Ukraine" really turned out to be in the cauldron in the areas of these cities.

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Map of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine as of May 17, 2022

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Kiselev clarified that the enemy units number less than 20,000 fighters, as some Ukrainian sources wrote.

The assistant to the minister also added that yesterday he was demonstrating prohibited ammunition found in Rubizhne , which, presumably, is used by mercenaries.

He stressed that the main task of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Lisichansk and Severodonetsk is the destruction of infrastructure.

"To demolish as much as possible, to cause harm and then to lay all this burden on the Russian Federation - this is their task. To intimidate the civilian population in such a way that they feel fear for many years," Kiselev said.

He added that, most likely, these troops were ordered not to withdraw.

“In the same way, when prisoners were taken in Rubizhnoye, they said that they had repeatedly appealed to the command: “We were forbidden to leave, they told us to stand to the death.” And high-ranking commanders fled a long time ago, a month ago,” concluded the assistant to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR .

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Pushilin spoke about the encirclement of the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdiivka

Since February 24, Russia has been conducting an operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine . Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years." According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian army strikes only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The main goal of the operation in the department was called the liberation of Donbass .